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"Charles Sanders Peirce once observed that in no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory." [More]
Read More »What makes old beer taste bad? Why, it’s the trans-iso-alpha acids, of course
Beer , for the most part, is not like wine--it does not improve with age. Quite the contrary, in fact
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Taptu's brand new iPad app brings us one step closer to the future of perfectly personalized news. Sure, it's nice to have an RSS reader that looks good
Read More »Industry Challenges Study that Natural Gas ‘Fracking’ Adds Excessively to Greenhouse Effect
By Richard Lovett of Nature magazine In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. [More]
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Read More »How to Write a Business Plan Outline
When the topic of business plans comes up, it tends to polarize people into two separate camps: those that think business plans are worth the effort to put together and those that think that unless you're trying to raise money, writing a business plan is a waste of time . For Ellen Rohr, a business consultant and founder of Bare Bones Biz , the answer lies somewhere in between. "The primary purpose of a business plan is to help you gain clarity and hold yourself accountable for moving in the direction of what you want," she says
Read More »One Percent of U.S. Coal Plants Closed to Avoid Pollution
One of the nation's largest coal-burning utilities said yesterday it will shutter 18 of its coal-fired boilers and pay billions to rein in pollutants at many of its remaining units, underscoring the evolving energy landscape in the United States.
Read More »Would You Like This Article More If You Had To "Like" It On Facebook Before Reading?
How Facebook pages psychologically manipulate us into liking brands. Many of the world's most powerful brands are doubling down on Facebook, from President Obama to The New Yorker
Read More »Smoking Weeds: Stopping Fast-Spreading, Invasive Reeds without Chemicals Takes Perseverance
Dear EarthTalk : We have an invasion of phragmites in the wetlands bordering our neighborhood. I understand they are a non-native plant that, if left unchecked, will overrun the whole ecosystem. How does one remedy this situation in an eco-friendly way?
Read More »You (posthumously) light up my life
The Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris was one of the most well known in the city and its grounds were in high demand by those wishing to be buried in a Christian graveyard between the 12th and 18th centuries.
Read More »I’ll Take the Village
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.
Read More »A year on, Gulf still grapples with BP oil spill
By Anna Driver and Matthew Bigg VENICE, La./WAVELAND, Mississippi (Reuters) - When a BP oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last April, killing 11 workers, authorities first reported that no crude was leaking into the ocean. [More]
Read More »Blaming parents: What I’ve learned and unlearned as a child psychiatrist
The fact that he'd stopped crying scared me. Damn rear-facing car seat.
Read More »Crab Love Nest
Carmela Cuomo thought she had the secret within reach, hidden in a shallow black tank at the NOAA marine fisheries laboratory in Milford, Conn. The horseshoe crabs she had plucked from New Haven Harbor in 2000 trundled about their springtime ritual, digging pits in the sand, laying their eggs and fertilizing them.
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